Jelly Bean

The Motorola PHOTON Q 4G LTE is far from the newest Android handset. But perhaps a bit more important today -- Motorola has decided the fate of the handset in terms of software updates. And in a bit of disappointing news for those carrying a PHOTON Q 4G LTE -- you will be sticking with Jelly Bean.

Many major OEMs have made the move to KitKat, but maybe not as quick as they did to Jelly Bean. A new Chitika report shows that only about 10% of Android devices are running Android 4.4 or better. In a similar timeframe after Jelly Bean launched, it had a 16% adoption rate.

Having device crash issues? It might just be your operating system. According to Crittercism, which just released a new report named “State of Mobile”, Gingerbread crashes the most among Android builds. The most stable? That honor goes to KitKat, Jelly Bean, and Ice Cream Sandwich.

It seems fair to say that many Android users want to be running Kit Kat. But the truth of the matter here, not all that many are actually getting that wish. In fact, according to the latest Android 'platform versions' report released by Google -- only 2.5 percent of users are on Kit Kat. Furthermore, even though Kit Kat has been available for roughly four months, it remains at such a little percentage that Google has yet to split the percentages between 4.4 and 4.4.2.

HTC has begun rolling out an update for the Butterfly. The handset is getting updated to Android 4.3 Jelly Bean, which comes along with Sense 5.5. Along with the changes in the Android and Sense version numbers, this update will leave your Butterfly with software version 3.15.707.4.

Earlier in the week HTC let it be known that AT&T One X+ users would have an update beginning soon. At the time they said the update would be arriving later in the week. And while we have yet to see a formal announcement from AT&T about the rollout, several user reports have surfaced. Simply put, AT&T One X+ users are getting Android 4.2.2 as we speak.

Sony has returned with another status update in terms of Android 4.3. They have yet to announce a specific availability date, however it looks like four Xperia handsets will be getting a bump in Jelly Bean in the next month or so. The devices include the Xperia T, TX, V and SP and the rough timeline points towards late January or early February.

It was a few weeks earlier when Sony announced that Jelly Bean was rolling out to the Xperia Z1 and Xperia Z Ultra. Perhaps more important though, that news came with a bit of teasing about how the Android 4.3 Jelly Bean update rollout for the "remaining" Sony Xperia devices was "right around the corner." Well, it looks like that day has come and Sony has announced Jelly Bean for four additional devices.

Both T-Mobile and AT&T have already been rolling the Android 4.3 update to Galaxy Note II users and it looks like a third carrier is just about ready to begin. Next up is Verizon Wireless, who have recently posted the changelog on the support pages. The update is detailed as being Android 4.3 and arriving as software version JSS15J.I605VRUEMJ9.

Following some of the other carrier branded Galaxy S III updates, Verizon Wireless has become the latest to begin rolling out Android 4.3. With that in mind, those carrying a Verizon Galaxy S III should be on the lookout for the update notification to arrive. Knowing the update rollout has already begun, users will be seeing an update that measures in at roughly 116MB in size and delivering support for the Galaxy Gear smartwatch as well as a decent sized list of fixes, changes, and other miscellaneous tweaks.